Clothes-wringer clamp.



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GUSTAVE H. JANTZ, OF WYOMING, OHIO.

CLOTHES-Welness CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 1e, 1907.

Application filed May 11.1905. Serial No. 260.035.

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' on the beaded rims of washtubs; and it consists in the combination, with a clamp-arm having a fastening thumb-screw, of a circular disk or bearing-plate centrally swiveled on said thumb-screw and having a circumferential concavity or arc-shape groove along the inner edge of its periphery or rim, a countersunk inner face, a projecting circular edge or flange made integral with the disk on its said inner face and adapted to contact with the outer face of the tub, andsaid circumferential concavity of the disk adapted for engagement at any point along its rim with the outwardly-beaded edge of the tub, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention herein, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing an ordinary metal washtub'having the usual outwardly-beaded edge or rim and with a clothes-wringer about to be lowered and fully clamped in place thereon for use Fig. 2, a longitudinal elevation of the clamp device,

showing it attached to the lower fragmentary portion of a wringer and with its contacting disk bearing in 'full position against the outer 'face of the tub and under the beaded edge of said tub, the latter being shown in cross-section and of a fragmentary portion only; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, but showing the manner in which the clamp device is adapted for use on an ordinary wooden tub that has no beaded edge, the clamp-arm and the thumbscrew being shown broken off 3 Fig. 4, an elevation showing the inner face or back of the disk that contacts with the outer face of the tub; and Fig. 5, a central 'axial section of the disk, bringing to view more clearly than the other views the said disk that embodies the essential features of my invention.

In these views, l indicates the upright side or cylindrical portion of a metal tub having the customary outwardly-beaded upper edge or rim 2. l

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3 indicates each one of the usual pair of the ordinary vertical posts of a clothes-wringer having a bracket or clip 3a attached thereto near its lower end, and 4 is an arm pivotally projecting from said bracket or clip and having at its outer end an integral pendent arm 5, projecting at a right angle thereto'.

6 is the usual horizontal thumb-screw engaging the arm 5 and having pivotally attached at its inner end a circular bearingplate or disk 7. The disk 7 has a central swivel socket 6a on its outer face for accommodating the inner end of the screw 6, and it has on its inner face or back a countersunk portion 8, whereby an integral circular bearing edge or contacting annular flange 9 is provided for intimate close frictional contact with the outer face of the tub.

10 represents an arc-shape groove or concavity constructed circumferentially .along the inner edge of the rim or periphery of the disk 7, such are-shape concavity' adapting itself to intimately seat around the side and bottom of the outwardly-projecting round beaded rim 2 of the tub, as best seen in Fig. 2, thus preventing any slipping or shifting of the wringer from place. ,Said are shape of the conoavity corresponds to the rounded face of the beaded rim 2 for proper seating, as stated, and free reciprocatery movement of the disk to and from place against the face of the tub is assured owing to the manner in which the thumb-screw is swiveled to the disk and the freedom of contact of the periphery of the disk with the lower face of the arm 4, as also seen in said Fig. 2 and in Fig. 3.

As best seen in Fig. 5, the disk 7, together with its contacting flange 9 and arc-shape grooved periphery are made integral or of one piece of metal or of suitable material that may be readily and economically made IOO 2. A clothes-wringer clamp comprising an arm, a thumb-screw carried by and engaging a threaded Opening in said arm, and a disk or swiveled bearing-plate comprising e. single circular piece Of material having the inner, peripheral edge of its circular contacting fece circumferentially concaved in are shape and, also, having an integral socket On its Mav. 1905.

GUSTAVE H. JANTZ.

Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS JONES, L. W. JONES. 

